You may have heard the song "Don't Believe Nothing" as performed by Ike & Tina Turner. The refrain is simple and unambiguous. "I can't believe what you saying," they sing, "I keep on seeing what you do." As government lawyers defend the president's executive order regarding immigration, we can all sing the opposite song. Basically: I can't accept what you're doing; I keep on hearing what you say.

In granting a temporary restraining order against the implementation of an executive order barring travel from six Muslim countries - Trump's second attempt to enact such an order -- U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson said it's dishonest for the government to argue that President Donald Trump wasn't trying to impose a Muslim ban. In December 2015, then candidate Trump issued a press release with the headline "Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States." Watson also pointed out that former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani explained in a television interview that when Trump "first announced it, he said, 'Muslim ban.' He called me up. He said, 'Put a commission together. Show me the right way to do it legally.'"

Rejecting the argument from government's lawyers that it's not the court's role to look into the "veiled psyche" or "secret motives" of government officials or to try to conduct "psychoanalysis." But Watson said none of that is necessary. Trump has revealed his own motives in his public statements and interviews.

And in his tweets.

His inability to stay off Twitter may ruin the arguments the government may make at the U.S. Supreme Court. For example, as The Hill notes in a Monday (June 5) story, the government's lawyers have taken great care not to use the word "travel ban" when describing the president's executive order. But on Monday, Trump tweeted, "People, the lawyers and the courts can call it whatever they want, but I am calling it what we need and what it is, a TRAVEL BAN!"

Trump also expressed anger that the Department of Justice didn't stick with the first executive order he signed instead of choosing to go ahead with a second executive order that he describes in a tweet as "watered down" and "politically correct."

Wait a minute. The president's signature is on that second executive order! If he didn't want that replacement executive order to exist, then it wouldn't. Does he not understand that he's the president and that he gets the final say on such things?

"He is the President of the United States. Lawyers in the Justice Department, as well as the White House Counsel, work for him," Josh Blackman, a constitutional law professor at the South Texas College of Law in Houston said in an email to The Hill. Blackman, a member of the conservative Federalist Society, also said, "The buck stops at the Oval Office. He can't blame his attorneys for implementing a policy he signed.

Oh, yes he can. He shouldn't, but he can.

Blackman said that he didn't think the president's tweets would be a big deal though because "my reading of the caselaw is that the Justices's review is limited to the four corners of the executive order, so all of this is irrelevant."

Judge Watson's March 15 order suggests otherwise, though. He cited a Ninth Circuit ruling made earlier this year that says "It is well established that evidence of purpose beyond the facts of the challenged law may be considered in evaluating Establishment and Equal Protection Clause claims." And according to Watson's ruling, "The Supreme Court has been even more emphatic: courts may not 'turn a blind eye to the context in which [a] policy arose.'"

George Conway, husband of the presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway and an attorney who just took his name out of consideration to run the Civil Division of the Department of Justice, publicly expressed his disappointment Monday at the president's undisciplined behavior.

George Conway, who reportedly hadn't tweeted anything since 2015, couldn't stay silent Monday when the president was attacking the DOJ and defending the use of the words "travel ban." Referring to the U.S. Supreme Court and to the Office of Solicitor General, which defends the government's positions in court, Conway tweeted, "These tweets may make some ppl feel better, but they certainly won't help OSG get 5 votes in SCOTUS, which is what actually matters. Sad."

Trump is president in large part because not enough people held him accountable for the things he said. And because he is so comfortable denying that he said the things that he was actually recorded saying. Given that context, it's not surprising that he's blabbing on Twitter the way that he is. He operates as a person who can say whatever he wants whenever he wants with impunity.

That style won him the election, but it might not win him much in court.